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Originally Posted by lorax
I think we might have different kinds of leafcutters, Chong. Mine make long trails and constantly use them, so you just follow them back to the nest, which is a big bare area. In my case, I then soak my boots in kerosene (this keeps them from climbing me during the second step), and I use a machete to break the nest open. From there it's as I described.
I have this kind of little red bastard munchie ants. They're quite easy to follow, since they wear their own little paths through the garden and forest.
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Eeeeek! That's what they look like around here. Though ours are probably only 3/4 the size of those. A little smaller anyway. My problem here is that they are mostly nocturnal. If I'm lucky, and I may see them early in the morning. And I can see them quickly scouring around with pieces of leaves. I understand that they don't actually eat the leaves, but use the leaves to compost and grow a certain type of fungus, which is the one they eat. So, do the ants get killed by the Carbon Dioxide gas, or it it the Sodium Acetate that gets in their food that kills them?